BitRobot is a distributed, open robotics network that coordinates global hardware, teleoperators, compute, and researchers to advance embodied AI outside traditional closed labs. BitRobot's Twitter Score is 82 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #9,584 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
BitRobot was co-founded by Michael Cho, Sam Cho, Jonathan Victor, and Juan Benet, growing out of FrodoBots Lab, which the Cho brothers began in 2022 as a weekend project to gamify robotics data collection. In February 2025, the project raised $8 million to launch the network, a round led by Protocol VC, with additional backing from Big Brain Holdings, Fabric Ventures, Zee Prime Capital, Tioga Capital, Permanent Ventures, Stateless Ventures, and NIM Network. The network is built on Solana and affiliated with Protocol Labs.
BitRobot operates through a subnet architecture featuring Verifiable Robotic Work, Embodied Node Tokens as robot-identity NFTs, BitRobot Senate governance, and a Gandalf AI system for emission-weight proposals. A whitepaper co-authored by Michael Cho, Jonathan Victor, and Juan Benet was published in March 2025. The first live subnet, ET Fugi (SN/01), launched in August 2025 as a rover game where players remotely drive sidewalk robots to collect navigation data. A second subnet, SeeSaw, developed with Virtuals Protocol, surpassed one million completed egocentric video tasks within its first month of operation.
BitRobot has released open-source sidewalk robotics datasets, including FrodoBots-2K and Berkeley-FrodoBots-7K on Hugging Face, described as the largest open-source sidewalk navigation datasets available. The network also announced HIW-500, described as the largest open-source humanoid teleoperation dataset collected in real homes, built with Unitree Robotics and Hugging Face across homes in Southeast Asia. The BitRobot Foundation has pledged $5 million toward Grand Challenges covering robotics benchmarks such as Earth Rover, Robotic Origami, and Robotic IKEA Assembly. Research partnerships include collaborations with Google DeepMind, UC Berkeley, the University of Washington, and Meta AI, alongside DePIN and AI network partners GEODNET, ionet, and Rayvo.
BitRobot has 115,685 followers as of August 2026 on X and has published 1,418 posts. The account has been mentioned by 164 accounts, with 400 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow BitRobot include 264 founders, 82 angel investors, 192 influencers and 7 VCs, among them Toly, Solana, Andrew Kang, Vance Spencer, Raj and Jason Choi.